A relative newcomer to the social media landscape, Snapchat recorded an average of 158 million
daily active users in the last quarter of 2016.
In comparison, Snapchat reported its highest ever
daily active users in their May 2017 Q1 report with 166 million daily active users, of which around 40 million post Stories to the platform daily.
Yet still Facebook saw its first - ever decline in U.S. and Canada
daily active users in Q4 2017, losing 700,000 — though that was contributed to by new changes that demoted viral videos.
WhatsApp, which is the most popular app in India, has over 160 million
daily active users in India and now supports video calling in addition to audio calling.
The company's
daily active users in North America — while a still impressive 184 million in North America — fell from a year ago for the first time ever last quarter.
Daily active users in the U.S. and Canada fell by 700,000 from the third to the fourth quarter, CFO David Wehner noted.
Facebook hasn't given guidance on the popularity of Facebook Stories but it said Messenger Day had 70 million
daily active users in September, versus 300 million on Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status, and 178 million on Snapchat's whole app.
The viral video changes triggered Facebook's first - ever decline in
daily active users in the US & Canada region, which saw a 700,000 user decline.
The viral video changes and other prioritization of well - being over time spent contributed to a reduction of 700,000
daily active users in the U.S. and Canada region.
This showed up as a reduction from 185 million to 184 million
daily active users in the US & Canada region.
Giphy, a GIF keyboard and network, said it hit 200 million
daily active users in July and has since hit 300 million DAUs, and all this growth just goes to show how effective GIFs have become as a way of cramming a lot of information into a small amount of space.
The new location based / AR game from Niantic and The Pokémon Company has done exceptionally well on both iOS and Android with more
daily active users in the US than Candy Crush.
On Monday, Pokémon Go saw just under 21 million
daily active users in the U.S., topping Candy Crush's rumored peak audience in 2013 as well as other top games like Draw Something, Clash Royale, and Slither.io, which hit their own peaks in various years.
With over 2 million
daily active users in 196 countries, Grindr is the largest all - male mobile social network in the world
Simkhai started Grindr in 2009, and he and the team have grown the company to house 1.7 m
daily active users in 192 countries, with guys sending 70m messages and exchanging 5m photos every day.
About Grindr With over 3.3 million
daily active users in every country in the world, Grindr is the largest LGBTQ mobile social network.
The company bounced back from the last quarter's decline in the number of
daily active users in the US and Canada, saying it has 185 million users there, up 1 million from Q4 2017.
At the moment, Snapchat's
daily active users in the U.S. and Canada are just over one third of Facebook's, which has 175 million in the same region.
And while Facebook's European user base is bigger (it has 252 million
daily active users in Europe), it gets more average revenue per user from advertising in the U.S. and Canada ($ 13.74) than it does in Europe ($ 3.71).
Slack, whose customers include CBS (cbs), BuzzFeed, universities, and the U.S. government, had over 4 million
daily active users in October.
A company spokesperson told Bloomberg that it has 50 million
daily active users in Europe, with 10 million in the U.K. alone.
The number of Facebook's
daily active users in the United States and Canada also inched up to 185 million during the first quarter from 184 million in the previous quarter.
Not exact matches
In February, the company posted its best quarter yet — it saw revenue growth of $ 286 million and
daily active users increased to 187 million.
The company's number of
daily active users pointed to steady engagement
in the platform despite backlash from the Cambridge Analytica debacle.
The company behind the popular disappearing - message app Snapchat has long trailed rival social media company Facebook
in daily active users and is still far from profitability.
Snap has long trailed rival social media company Facebook
in daily active users, and is still far from profitability.
They include Microsoft which introduced workplace chat tool Teams
in November and is working to integrate LinkedIn into its products and services, and start - up Slack, which has 5 million
daily active users and 1.5 million paying subscribers.
The company said that it has 250,000
daily active users, with the aim of getting 100 million on board
in the next five years.
The app is only about a month old, but it's amassed more than 30,000
daily active users, about 310,000 total
users in the US and abroad — it's the top lifestyle app
in Germany right now, the company says — and has produced close to 200,000 matches so far.
Market leader Slack, Inc.'s 2015 company of the year, reportedly has 5 million
daily active users and $ 150 million
in annual revenue.
That's significant: At present, Snap claims that around half of its 160 million
daily active users come from countries outside the U.S., including
in Ireland, Singapore, and Sweden.
It also saw a 7 percent increase
in its
daily active users, thanks
in part to the three presidential debates.
Instagram's Stories platform has been very successful, reaching 150 million
daily active users since it launched
in August.
The workplace messaging software has amassed 2 million
daily active users since the service officially launched
in February 2014 — that's almost double the tally from six months ago.
It's also been crowned as the most popular mobile video game
in history by survey company SurveyMonkey and is estimated to have had 21 million
daily active users at its peak
in the United States.
While 60 million of Snapchat's 150 million
daily active users are
in the U.S. and Canada, Europe represents its second biggest market.
Snap's new app redesign — more clearly separating social from media — has been pushed to 40 million
users (of 187 million
daily active users) with the remainder to come
in the first quarter.»
«We believe investors are eager to hear a response to the recent app redesign, and
in particular whether or not it can jumpstart
daily active user growth,» wrote Blackledge, adding that Snapchat
users are also spending more time on the application.
Snap's critical metric,
daily active users (DAU), is expected to increase 16 percent year over year
in the fourth quarter and remains a key measure for the company, according to Cowen.
«One is a re-acceleration
in daily active users, and two is an increase
in the average revenue per
user, particularly abroad, where the APRUs are always less than they are
in the United States,» Meeks said, using an acronym meaning average revenue per
user.
Snap has seen a temporary decline
in daily active users and is currently not profitable.
Wehner added that the number of
daily and monthly
active users in Europe may be flat or down next quarter due to new privacy regulations, which could also impact revenue.
Snap shares plummeted more than 13 percent
in extended trading after the social media company reported earnings and revenue misses, as well as a miss on analyst expectations for global
daily active users.
Snap (SNAP) stock was down 16 percent
in premarket after it missed revenue forecasts and its forward guidance and
daily active users were weaker than estimates as well.
We view the 6 million to 8 million
daily visitors to our stores as DAU, or
daily active users,» he laughed, throwing
in even more tech talk.
The photo service said on Thursday that it has 200 million
daily active users, up from 150 million
in January.
It claims nearly 2 million customers
in total, of which 250,000 are
daily active users, roughly 400,000 are weekly
active users and 900,000 are monthly
active users.
«Since launching 29 months ago
in 12 cities across 4 states we've acquired 208,000
users and 195,000
daily active users averaging a 10.5 percent monthly
user increase over the last 7 months.»
iQiyi had 421.3 million monthly
active users and about 126 million
active daily mobile
users in the last three months of 2017.
Facebook's
daily active users reached 1.17 billion
in 3Q16 compared to just 153 million for Snap.